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national / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 22, 2008 - 19:07 by Cael
 26 comments (last - monday april 14, 2008 - 22:11)
In Athens, election of officials was not practiced because it was thought to favor the wealthy and powerful. Giving decision-making power to elected officials was thought to take away the power of the people and effectively make the state an oligarchy, that is government by an elite group ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Saturday March 22, 2008 - 15:23 by Cael
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It seems to me that we have well and truly returned to the days of Michael Davitt and the Land League. Where huge numbers of people are being bled dry by a small group of Landlords. And what do these latterday Landlords do with their ill gotten gains? Like the Landlords of old, they take the money out of the country. The Landlord class in Ireland have bought overseas land and buildings to the sum of 1.2 trillion euro - that right 1200 billion euro. ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday March 22, 2008 - 15:01 by Cael
1 comment (last - saturday march 22, 2008 - 20:08)
ATTEMPTS by some members of Limerick City Council to place obstacles in the way of the new regeneration boards must be condemned, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin said this week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Friday March 21, 2008 - 17:43 by KevinT. Walsh
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Contemporary Irish society is more divided than it has been for a long time - or so it was written last week. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday March 21, 2008 - 07:49 by James R
Army Sergeant Ronn Cantu is serving his second tour in Iraq. He's also a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Last year, he rose to prominence as a rare outspoken troop against the war and occupation when he spoke live from his base in Iraq, to America's radical online radio network Democracy Now. Then he described how he was scared out of his mind during the interview for expressing opinions the military machine simply did not want the public to hear. This time round, in an interview for another radical media outlet, we chatted over Myspace, about how he is utilizing the internet to organise against the occupation from its front line, just as the Winter Soldier events were getting closer. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday March 20, 2008 - 11:29 by Jim
We've been here before. In 1992 Bill Clinton who never served in the military or fired a shot in anger challenged President George H W Bush, who was one of the youngest US fighter pilots of World War 2 and who was shot down and rescued at a sea while others who participated in the same attack were captured and cannibalised by the Japanese. In 1996 Bill Clinton challenged Bob Dole, a veteran of the the WW2 Italian campaign who was wounded by a German machine gun and waited for nine agonising months to be evacuated to an American hospital leaving his right arm paralyzed preventing him from shaking hands, a serious disability for a politician. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday March 19, 2008 - 09:59 by Mr Pipe from Yorkshire
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News coming from the Meath conference of AGSI says that the Gardai want murder trial televised for General Public viewing, supposedly that would up the clothing allowances of the judge's bench and provide a cannon fodder of violent and disturbing viewing for the General Public. Maybe they will provide interactive buttons for people to get involved in the legal process. The risible reason for this suggestion is to show 'us' the great people and public viewers what Gardai must suffer in the courts. They seem well enough appraised of the rights of the individual and one of those is the presumption of innocence. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Monday March 17, 2008 - 19:34 by Brian
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This article is just an attempt to speculate on how the Vatican intends to juggle the competing interests of the two streams of thought within the Catholic Church. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 16, 2008 - 23:20 by Fu Manchu
14 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 - 21:32)
Firstly, I do not intend to exhonerate or belittle human rights abuses by the PRC in this piece. However, I feel it appropriate to provoke the thoughts of the readership & our horizontal media community on what exactly are the main issues & ethical social principles at the root of the recent violence in Tibet & other provinces of the PRC with ethnic Tibetan communities. ... read full story / add a comment |
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